On 08/20/2015 11:19 PM, Martin Vaeth wrote: > Alexander Berntsen <berna...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> >> - -1. The way "dedicated" is used in games ebuilds is a very established >> term that all gamers know and expect to behave in a specific way. >> This will mess with our users. > > How do you know what the users know and expect? > When installing a game, I was regularly surprised by the meaning > of this USE-flag and had to read its description several times > to be sure that I understand what is going on. > Remember that not only permanent gamers install games occassionally. > >
It is used to set up a pure dedicated server, whatever that may mean for a particular package (not just -client). You don't want to figure out such details if you are setting this up on a real server. You want to set it and be good.
